Ever wish you could spend just one more day with someone you've loved & lost?Me? Many, many times over this past year! And I'm almost certain that all of us have at one time or another in our lives!
Dina gave me a couple of wonderful books last year... For One More Day & The 5 People You Meet in Heaven, both by Mitch Albom. Great books for anyone I think, but especially worked for us after the year we've had (does my wife know me or what?).
On Sunday, ABC aired the premiere of Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day. It's the story (from Oprah's website) of Charley; a broken-down former baseball player who's collapsed into alcoholism & despair. He returns to his hometown planning to take his own life.
At the final moment he is magically granted one more day with his departed mother, Posey, who illuminates the secrets of both their lives and shows Chick a way to redemption.
The prologue of the book begins by saying, This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might call it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.
If you could have that One More Day - who would you spend it with & how would you spend it?
I've included the theme song (written by Diane Warren & sung by Nick Lachey; available for download the 18th on iTunes) from the movie below. Listen to the words as you think about that question a little bit.
God Bless!
Johnny
As the song says:
I wouldn't ask for money. I wouldn't ask for fame. I wouldn't ask for the power to make this world change. If I could have one thing, that one thing that I would choose... is one more ordinary day with you!
I miss you, Dad! You too, Michael Roy!
JE:)